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CVE Vulnerability Details :
CVE-2026-42768
PUBLISHED
More InfoOfficial Page
Assigner-openssl
Assigner Org ID-3a12439a-ef3a-4c79-92e6-6081a721f1e5
View Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) details
Published At-09 Jun, 2026 | 16:03
Updated At-10 Jun, 2026 | 07:48
Rejected At-
▼CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
Multi-RecipientInfo Bleichenbacher Oracle in CMS_decrypt() and PKCS7_decrypt()

Issue summary: The CMS_decrypt and PKCS7_decrypt functions are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher-style attack when an attacker is able to provide the CMS or S/MIME messages and observe the error code and/or decryption output. Impact summary: The Bleichenbacher-style attack allows an attacker to use the victim's vulnerable application as a way to decrypt or sign messages with the victim's private RSA key. The attack is possible in 2 variants. 1. The decryption API (CMS_decrypt(), PKCS7_decrypt()) is used without providing the recipient certificate. In this case OpenSSL iterates over every KeyTransRecipientInfo (KTRI) without stopping at the first success. An attacker who authors a message with two KTRI entries — the first one wrapping a real CEK under the victim's public key, the second with an arbitrary probe ciphertext — obtains opportunity to iterate the 2nd KTRI to get a valid PKCS#1 v1.5 padding if the error code of the application is available. That is a Bleichenbacher oracle (Bleichenbacher, CRYPTO '98): an adaptive-chosen-ciphertext side channel from which the attacker decrypts any RSA ciphertext to the victim's key or forges any PKCS#1 v1.5 signature under it. 2. When the decryption API (CMS_decrypt(), PKCS7_decrypt()) is provided with the recipient certificate, and the recipient is not found, a random key is substituted. An attacker who authors a message and is able to compare both error code and the result of the decryption, can mount a Bleichenbacher oracle. We are not aware of any applications that provide a remote attacker an opportunity to mount an attack described in these scenarios. We consider the existence of such application very unlikely, and for this reason this CVE has been evaluated as Low severity. To avoid these attacks, when RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 Key Transport is in use, the invoked EVP_PKEY_decrypt() will use the implicit rejection mechanism described in draft-irtf-cfrg-rsa-guidance. In previous OpenSSL releases the implicit rejection was explicitly disabled. The implicit rejection mechanism always returns a plaintext value, the symmetric key. This result is deterministic for the ciphertext and the private key. The length of the decryption result can happen to match the length of the key of the symmetric cipher that was used for the content encryption. When a certificate is not provided, the last RecipientInfo producing a key that looks valid will be used. It may cause getting garbage content on decryption. As a proper way to deal with this a recipient certificate has to be provided to identify the particular RecipientInfo for decryption. The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, and 3.4 are not affected by this issue, as CMS and S/MIME processing happens outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

Affected Products
Vendor
OpenSSLOpenSSL
Product
OpenSSL
Default Status
unaffected
Versions
Affected
  • From 4.0.0 before 4.0.1 (semver)
  • From 3.6.0 before 3.6.3 (semver)
  • From 3.5.0 before 3.5.7 (semver)
  • From 3.4.0 before 3.4.6 (semver)
Problem Types
TypeCWE IDDescription
CWECWE-514CWE-514 Covert Channel
Type: CWE
CWE ID: CWE-514
Description: CWE-514 Covert Channel
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VersionBase scoreBase severityVector
Metrics Other Info
https://openssl-library.org/policies/general/security-policy/
text:
Low
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reporter
Alex Gaynor (Anthropic)
remediation developer
Dmitry Belyavskiy (Red Hat)
remediation developer
Alicja Kario (Red Hat)
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References
HyperlinkResource
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/f04b377be3d821741c86d1f4bf84dee09f3d5c3e
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a2ca7b2d73e0ffc1eae183fe6e1741dac767cb4f
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/bbb151a83041705d9d001ed2f9c12f5523e1b54d
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/dd68364107a58841c0a2546812518b65d3a23abd
patch
Hyperlink: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt
Resource:
vendor-advisory
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/f04b377be3d821741c86d1f4bf84dee09f3d5c3e
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a2ca7b2d73e0ffc1eae183fe6e1741dac767cb4f
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/bbb151a83041705d9d001ed2f9c12f5523e1b54d
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/dd68364107a58841c0a2546812518b65d3a23abd
Resource:
patch
▼Authorized Data Publishers (ADP)
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
Affected Products
Metrics
VersionBase scoreBase severityVector
3.13.7LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Version: 3.1
Base score: 3.7
Base severity: LOW
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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